Fake email/account hacked ransom (sextortion) — I hacked your device + recorded you visiting adult sites + pay Bitcoin or I send video to all your contacts
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What this tier means
High-confidence threat indicator — phishing, impersonation, BEC, or scam pattern. Strong contributor to the trash decision.
How Gorganizer detects this
Sextortion/ransomware email falsely claiming the sender hacked the recipient's device, installed spyware or malware, and recorded them visiting adult websites via their webcam — then threatening to send the "compromising footage" or "embarrassing recording" to all their contacts unless a ransom is paid in Bitcoin or cryptocurrency within 24–72 hours. Also called "I know your password" scams because scammers often include a real breached password to appear credible. The footage does not exist. FBI IC3 2024: sextortion emails are one of the top complaint categories with $80M+ in reported losses; the FBI advises victims to never pay and to report to ic3.gov. The passwords come from public data breaches (Have I Been Pwned, etc.), not from any actual compromise.
False-positive guard
Every signal in Gorganizer feeds a multi-module score — never a sole verdict. This is a threat-tier signal — it adds a strong contribution to the trash score. The full pipeline still requires convergence across multiple modules + a margin over the safety floor before deletion happens, and Gmail's trash (30-day recovery) is always used — never permanent delete.
About the scoring engine
Gorganizer's scoring engine emits 2,143+ signals across six modules — headers, sender, subject, body, attachments, and structural metadata. Every email is scored by every module independently; the final verdict requires multiple modules to agree and the trash score to beat the safety floor by a margin.
Sacred safety guards — never delete starred emails, replies, calendar invites, receipts/invoices, or attachments — apply unconditionally regardless of any signal.
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